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The anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s assassination was yesterday and I didn’t have time to post this speech but I do now, so I will. King offered a prophetic speech in which he inspiration and motivation while qualifying that "I might not get there with you." He was assassinated the day after giving this speech:

This is from DemocracyNow and provides some context to the speech. The letter King refers to in the speech was sent to MLK in response to a previous assassination attempt when King was stabbed in the chest.